blah blah.. I know I know.. I had a top of the line XT in the 80s. They
didn't even have 386 PCs in the 70s. You had to go pop my bubble though.
Maybe it was just because everything else seemed like late 60s early 70s
movies where they were like.. showing footage of 'high tech' labs and
stuff. Heh.. All looks so silly now. It was probably late 80s or early
90s in actuality. But maybe the case was made in the 70s. heh..
No no.. not "Compaq" as the name exists today, but it was a Leading Edge
paperwei.. I mean.. laptop. I still can't believe they wanted 100 bucks
for it. Was a pile. But novelty galore. I just imagine pulling msdos
5.0 off and putting a nice kernel 0.99 or the latest stable 1.xx on it.
That would be so cool.
Crap on 'have lying around." I'd have the beast running as a terminal.
Set the badboy somewhere no one would ever expect it. Like on the coffee
table with a serial cable and a power cord running out the tail end. Then
I'd have my main desktop dialup and I could check my email on it. Get a
cell phone and set it up in my car through the 2400 baud modem. Lynx!
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Chris Randall wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Peter Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 1999 11:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Suspend under Linux
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> >
> >I saw the coolest computer ever yesterday. It was a 70s style laptop.
> >It was way bulky, probably 20 some pounds. It had removable modem (about
> >the size of a half length desktop board, but no network card. It had a
> >display that was kind of like a calculator. It was begging for me to put
> >Linux on it and set it up as a dumb terminal. 386 with 20 meg hard drive,
> >maybe a floppy drive, and a 2400 modem. I should have offered 20 bucks
> >for it, but they wanted 100. Just for fun to put Linux on. Network it
> >through the serial/parallel port with ppp and put just a kernel, telnet,
> >and a few other networking utilities on it. It actually boot too.
> >Antique. I could just not eat for a day and save 20 bucks.
> >
>
> Not to detract from the coolness, but if the 'laptop' had a 386 inside, it
> was a latter-80s box, not a seventies box (the 386 rolled out in 1985). I
> lugged a Compaq that sounds like what you're describing in the late 80s for
> field engineering stuff. It was a 286 with a green monochrome monitor (maybe
> 9" ??). It would indeed be a fun 'antique' to have lying around, and even
> more fun if you did run Linux on it! (I think mine ran DOS 3.x - and Infocom
> games)
>
> Chris.
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